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Over there at my german language blog, I write some more or less lengthy and more or less fictionary stories during christmas time. This is one of them, though I think it loses a lot of it’s very own character due to the translation.

It was a nice winter day in Berlins central district. The birds that did not leave for the winter twittered. Spanish tourists,  mass goods that arrived with the same planes that export the sun hungry germans to their home country, were looking for cafes somewhere between all the American Apparel and three stripes retro shops. It seemed to be a little cold for them.

I was sitting at a café, as I do so many times. I thought about the world, the internet, the media and the people. I was in sorrow, feared the best and expected the worst. The coffee was okay, despite of being too expensive. The service worked, sometimes the internet connection had some hickups, from time to time a window popped up, a text message arrived, someone called, an e-mail stressed, but: nothing happened.

Thats how I lived the day, I missed an appointment, someone missed an appointment with me. And once in a while someone showed up who knew me. We talked, laughed, thought and occasionally checked the stock markets, just to amuse ourselves that we did not lose any money, since we didn’t have so before and our lifestyle was the one of a “tactical consumer elite”. Otherwise, we would have showed everybody how to do good things on the internet.

Then we sat down again and thought for a minute, whether it would be nice or not to change jobs with the man outside sweeping the cigarette stubs of past nights from the sidewalk.  Sometimes we experienced sudden inspirations, one of them or two, three. Some awful play of words fell, stumbled, tumbled out of our party distressed brains. Being a brain worker means to work on your brain with coffee drinks.

So it was a nice december, with the little flaw of being somewhat nicer, if it would have been nice. At the table next to me, a spanish tourist set up her notebook and headset. She said something that sounded like she would enjoy Berlin very much.